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Machiavellian on 27 July 2013
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thismeintiel said:
tuscaniman99 said:
@bananaking21
He basically said the Xbox One was a joke because only 5gb of ram was available to developers and his game is using 5gb already blah blah blah. He showed his game at the Sony conference and I bet he is feeling pretty stupid about now. There is no way his game is using 5gb of ram unless he is the worst coder in history.

As far as I remember, he never bashed the One for only having 5GB of available RAM.  He was explaining why 8GB may seems like a lot, but it really isn't.  He did wonder why MS didn't put more in it, since DDR3 is so cheap in bulk.  Of course, I don't necessarily agree with him that 8 GB is not a lot. 

Other than that, the only other comments I have seen from him on RAM have been about the speed of the RAM +  the HW advantages may make scenarios where some games run 60 FPS on the PS4, while only running 30FPS on the One.

You are correct.  Blow never mentioned the X1, he was talking about his game and pretty much what you stated.  If you really think about it, any piece of software can consume a lot of memory if you do not manage consumption.  Probably at this stage of development Blow is not doing a lot of memory management because he does not have to.  IF the whole game can live in memory that might be a best case scenerio for his game performance.